The Motorcycle Diaries Page #2

Synopsis: In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna - Fuser to his friends and later better known as 'Ernesto Che Guevara' - one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend 'Alberto Granado' - Mial to his friends - on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books about the continent on which they live, and to finish that quest on Alberto's thirtieth birthday on the other side of the continent in the Guajira Peninsula in Venezuela. Not all on this trip goes according to their rough plan due to a broken down motorbike, a continual lack of money (they often stretching the truth to gain the favor of a variety of strangers to help them), arguments between the two in their frequent isolation solely with each other, their raging libidos which sometimes get t
Director(s): Walter Salles
Production: Focus Features
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2004
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"I don't know with what strength i freed myself from her eyes,|"I broke away from her arms

"She was left clouding with tears her anguish|"Behind the rain and the glass

- Lorca eh?|- No

- Neruda|- No

- Who?|- I don't remember

- Good bye|- Bye

Wait, wait. The snot is...

And so...with Chichina, nothing...

Not even after giving her the German shepherd with pedigree...nothing

I mean, at least you saw a tit...one

Ahhh....You saw her tits, Ernesto

Scalpel, Scalpel

North American Dollars?

- Fifteen|- Chichina?|- Yes

I like that girl for you, i always said that she was your girlfriend.|We will eat better now

- No...|- Protein food

No, she gave me this money for when we get to the US.|She asked me to buy her some pants.

I told her i would

- What?|- Forget about this money. It is out of our budget.

- F***ing moron, he is testing me...|- Che are you talking to the bike again

Listen to me man, what is wrong with your head?|That chick's got you by the balls.

Calm down

- Good evening|- Hi

Piedra de guila, Argentina|January 29th, 1952|Km 1809

- How do you feel the bike?|- The wire is making wonders, it works great

- Son of a b*tch...f***

Are you alright Fuser?

It was the curve

Son of a...

Look at the pipe...|son of a b*tch!

Pass the stakes, Im all out

Wait, wait, don't f*** with me

- You had to choose this place, you idiot...|- No you chose this place

Hold that side

- No...f***|- Son of a...

- The river is taking it|- Grab it, grab it

It took it

- Che and what if we go there?|- We should ask for help over here, with the common people

- Which one are we doing? The broken headlight?|- No, Red October. You have the experience right?

Good Night

What do you want

Maybe our appearance doesn't show it, but we are doctors|from Buenos Aires and Crdoba, respectively

We are traveling all over the country, doing some research|with hopes of curing some of the worst diseases of the 20th century

Plagues that not only consume our energy but that also|keeps Argentina in need

When by just reading the medical literature, you could notice, just as us...

What the f*** do you want, pair of bums?

Look sir, the wind took our tent, we are starving|and we need a place to spend the night

Ok, out there in the shed there's a good ground.|You can sleep with the workers

- We are doctors...|- Hmm...i like your face a lot, but i don't like yours fatty

- Fine?|- Yes, its fine|- Thank you.

Dear Mom...we are still hitting the road,|but to tell you the truth, the bike is less powerful every day

San Martn de los Andes, Argentina|January 31st, 1952|Km 2051

Money and food are scarce, but we manage to find opportunities|to eat and sleep for free

Thanks to our secret weapon:|Alberto's infallible sweet talking

...plagues that not only consume our energy but compromise|the modernization of Argentina

- So, you are doctors|- Well, no. Alberto is a biochemist and I am an MD student|- He is practically graduated, we are like doctors

- Then i would appreciate it if you could look at a swelling i have in the neck|- Gladly, eh...Mr.?

Von Puttkamer

Does it hurt?

- This is a tumor|- What do you mean a tumor?|- Yes

- Do you think so|- Yes|- Allow me

I don't know Fuser, fat sedimentation|it could be a cyst

No. It is a tumor in the occipital area

- Schatzie, these gentlemen say i have a tumor|- Tumor?

Good morning mam, i sincerely don't believe it is a tumor|but a sebaceous cyst

If you could give us a place where we could|eat and sleep we might be able to treat it

No, no look...we can't treat it. You will have to go|to Buenos Aires. I can recommend you a specialist

- Or we could try to help him, don't you think?|- Help with what? With the grass, with prayers?

- I understand, you can't do anything for me|- Yes we can, if you give us a place where we could eat and sleep.

- Around here there's a lake with lots of fish and a shed|- Sir, the diagnostic is very...|- We have nothing more to talk about, doctors. Let's go Schatzie

- The next time could you try to help us a little|- Of course i can give you a hand, but never at the price of the health of a man

- Ok, let's say that you are right and the old guy has a tumor,|how the f*** do you tell him like that?

Is the truth, if he can't handle it he can go to hell

- You can't treat a patient like that, you can't|- The guy has a serious problem,|the sooner he looks into it the better

That's the proper treatment, didn't they teach you that|at biochemistry school?

Don't talk to me about proper medicine

Nurse. First graduate and then talk.|You think you know everything, moron

I'm going to look for food

Duck! duck! duck!. Give me gun, move it! move it!

Son of a...

Great Mial...

I hit it, man

- How did you do it?|- I can't f***ing believe it...

Well, there's no other choice but to get in the water|and pick up dinner, no? Fuser, to the water to get the food!

You are really crazy if you think Im going to get in there.|Do you know how cold is that water?

Yes, i know you are allergic to cold, water, hot and all that|but you know what, i am older, wiser and i shot the duck, so|you have to go

- That shot came out of your ass, besides i have asthma|- Ok, you are right. If you can't Ill do it

- I didn't say i couldn't|- You can't or you don't want to|- I didn't say that i couldn't

Or you don't want to and that is the same. Or you could give|me Chichina's fifteen bucks...

...and we eat as God intended, c'mon.

- Look if i get to find that f***ing duck, Ill eat it all by myself|- Ah! in the water, in the water, duck.

- I'm going to get my balls frozen|- For the use you give them, Fuser...

Good Fuser, good...bring on that duck with potatoes.|Is it cold Fuser? Hey! cold? Not over here.

Duck

- Are you feeling sick?|- No, Im just perfect

Bariloche Train Station, Argentina|3 days later|Km 2270

Easy

Fuser...

Fuser, listen to me. Give me Chichina's fifteen dollars and let's|go to a hospital like the people

If you say that to me again, Ill throw up all over you.

Dear mom...what is it that's lost when you cross a border.|Each moment seems to be split in two

Melancholy for what was left behind and on the|other hand all the enthusiasm at entering new lands

Frias Lake, Argentina|February 15th, 1952|Km 2306

- Look Mial, Chile|- Chile! Viva Chile!

- Is it your first time out of the country?|- Yes, of course

You are almost a man, Che

Look Mial, when we are old and tired of traveling, we|should come back and set a clinic on this lake

That's a good idea

Providing attention to everybody, if anyone ever comes

Count on me, brother

Hey, things are getting better Fuser, eh?|- Yeah

- Hey, it is snowing|- No, is just frost

- Help me|- On three, 1, 2, 3|- Done

Go, go, go

- F*** is cold!|- Some summer, uh

Che, you told me we would enter Chile like two conquerors.|Not on foot like a pair of losers

If you don't like it, go f*** yourself Ernesto

TEMUCO, CHILE|February 18th, 1952|Km 2772

What if we dump this sh*t that gives us so much trouble

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